As for survival of the fittest, even the least physically sound and dumbest member can be the reason for survival of a species.
Circumstances will be the judge of that.
BREAKING: His Beatitude Greek Patriarch Theophilos III has awarded President Trump the Great Bearer of the Cross of the Order of Cross-Bearers of the Holy Sepulchre, one of the highest honors of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem, during a meeting in the Oval Office.
Breaking: After Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya’s legal team appealed his arbitrary detention, Israeli authorities transferred him on 3 June 2026 from Naqab Prison to solitary confinement in Nafha as a punitive measure. The move comes amid harsh conditions and denial of medical treatment.
Yesterday Donald Trump tripled the size of his personal political army inside the government. Illegally. And almost no one noticed.
Here's what happened:
He signed an order converting ~8,000 of the most senior career officials in government into employees he can fire for any reason, or no reason at all.
These aren't rando's. They're the directors, chiefs of staff, and the people who write the rules or decide who gets federal money, i.e. the lieutenants right below his political appointees.
Until yesterday, they answered to the law. Now they answer to him.
A president normally gets ~4,000 political appointees. People he can bring into government and fire at will. I was one of them at DHS. You serve at his pleasure, full stop -- so if you're gonna speak truth to power, you're prepared to quit (or get fired if he doesn't like it).
The rest of the federal government is PROTECTED from firing if they tell the truth.
But Trump just stripped those protections. Adding 8,000 more people to his personal army. Overnight. Without asking Congress.
With the stroke of a pen, those people now serve at the pleasure of the president. They're "his" people, whether they like it or not.
And the chilling effect is real. An official who can be fired this afternoon for "subversion of presidential directives" (the order's own words) doesn't need to be hand-picked to know what's expected of him or her.
The threat does all the work.
By the way, this order is illegal. The law only lets Trump reclassify jobs when "necessary" in exceptional circumstances. And this blows an 8,000-person hole in the merit hiring / firing system created by Congress.
Without permission, Trump has created a whole new category of stormtroopers inside the Executive Branch.
If this doesn't get challenged in court, you're going to see the U.S. government become a very different place.
Here's the full story: https://t.co/mJzrvzhxGR
HORRIFIC: Israeli settler terrorists are attacking the village of Shouqba right now — setting fields and vehicles on fire, storming a soccer field, and beating children.
Residents are pleading for help from neighboring villages.
This is South Lebanon right now.
Israel is dropping bombs on civilian homes in Maarakah, Tyre.
American-made, American-supplied bombs.
The “ceasefire” is a lie.
The New World Screwworm, a grave parasitic threat, has just been detected in US cattle for the first time since it was eradicated in 1966.
The parasite's revival comes after Trump and DOGE slashed funding for Screwworm monitoring programs.
At least 10 Palestinians were killed in an Israeli airstrike on Gaza City tonight, among them an entire family — the father, mother, and their children.
I am still flabbergasted at how we told the world that what Israel was doing to us was genocide from the first days, just for the world to wait for "foreign people" to tell them it's genocide.
Maha's post will live well for ages to come.
D66 is in de fuik van de VVD gelopen. Jetten wilde perse minister-president worden, ook als dat zou betekenen dat hij het programma van de VVD moest uitvoeren. Het duidelijkste voorbeeld daarvan is de afbraak van de sociale zekerheid
Comparing a pool that is horizontal to skyscrapers that are vertical is peak insanity.
Why are Republicans allowing this demented clown to embarrass your country like this?